Food Safety Magazine Editorial Team

FDA's Human Foods Program has released its priority deliverables and guidance agenda for 2026, in line with the continued implementation of the Trump administration's MAHA agenda.

The Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI) has announced that SQF Edition 10 will be released in early March 2026, after a delay due to an extension in the GFSI benchmarking application time line.

The next webinar in the food safety culture series will share practical strategies for avoiding complacency through proactive, ongoing reinforcement of company values.

The virtual public meeting and listening sessions will help advance FDA food allergen threshold approaches to benefit public health. 

An analysis of a decade of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance data in foodborne pathogens (i.e., Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Escherichia coli) has identified patterns shaping multidrug resistance (MDR) in food animal production systems.

Contributing to the current conversation around food processing (e.g., “ultra-processed foods”), the Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences (IAFNS) has published a set of governing principles for food formulation and processing classification systems.

If adopted, the draft regulations would bring mandatory allergen labeling, a new business licensing scheme, and updated food hygiene rules to the British Crown Dependency.

The guidance defines the scientific data required to evaluate if a food additive is safe under the proposed conditions of use as part of new food additive applications in the EU.

Nestlé says that cereulide, the contaminant behind the recall, does not cause meningitis, the illness for which the infant was hospitalized. UK authorities say no cases of illness associated with Nestlé formula have been clinically confirmed.

Automating the full pathogen detection workflow into a single device, the test can be operated with the press of a button and is designed for onsite use by non-specialists.